Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 12: An urgent meeting of All J&K Plus 2 Officers Association was held through video conferencing under the chairmanship of Dr Prithvi Paul Raina for highlighting demands and issues of the cadre.
The Association hoped that all the programmes and projects of School Education Department will be completed under the leadership of new Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, who was also urged to look into all the grievances and issues of gazetted cadre of School Education Department for redressal of the same.
The Association demanded transfers and postings of Lecturers at respective Directorate level strictly under new transfers policy and placement of all key resource person Lecturers/Sr Lecturers / Experienced Lecturers with professional degree of B Ed or M Ed in SIEs & DIETs for effective Educational Research and Development
The Association also demanded Time Bound Promotions for Plus 2 Cadre /Assured Career Progression, promotion of Lecturers to Principals on 80 percent Sr Lecturers, 10 percent Lecturers with Ph D qualifications and 10 percent ZEOs quota, non vacational status to Principals and those Lecturers who work during vacations in their institutions, consideration of SED as Feeding Department to KAS, 10 percent quota for KAS inductions out of Lecturers in SED, removal of pay anomalies of Plus 2 Cadre Lecturers, placement of about 3000 Lecturers as Sr Lecturers , residential accommodation to Administrators as well as teaching faculty in far flung areas, filling up of all posts of ZEOs from out of Sr Lecturers , creation of the post of Vice Principal in SED, taking over of all Physical Education Lecturers from YS&S Department to SED & to remove their pay & Grade anomalies, regularisation of all incharge incumbents from Lecturers to Jt Directors, including Headmasters and ZEOs , filling up of all vacant posts of Lecturers, Principals, CEOs and Jt Directors, B Ed through IGNOU to all untrained Lecturers and deporting all the Plus 2 cadre employees of SED to J&K UT from Ladakh UT who have been working there on deputation beyond one year tenure.
The meeting was attended by all the executive committee members , including Rajeev Kumar Sharma, Narinder Sharma, Kapil Banotra, Neetu Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjew Kumar Pandita, Suresh Raina, Prem Pal Verma, Dr Balgar Singh and Raj Kumar Chadda.